Klaus Peter Keller (pictured here with his wife Julia) provides some phenological data for 2008 in his vineyards around Flörsheim-Dalsheim in Rheinhessen followed by his impressions of the...

Considerable interest in Germany’s 2008 vintage has been expressed here on our forum, with up to date input from the likes of Klaus Peter Keller and Michael Schmidt . The following 2008...

While their bigger and more downmarket rivals offer increasingly cut-throat deals on wine (three bottles for £10 or even £9) to lure customers into their stores to buy food etc, Waitrose has...

First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within reach of a branch of our most famous retailer (especially of underwear - hence the image, not...

We Masters of Wine went back to school last month with an AGM preceded by a tasting in Vintners' Hall (shown here) of some of Austria’s finest wines. This was held in honour of Pepi Schuller...

This line up of more than 50 wines from one of Europe's less well-known wine producing countries came about thanks to the enthusiastic response of a purple pager to a trip to Luxembourg...

Last night Hugh Johnson and I launched Hallwag's German edition of the latest, 6th edition of the World Atlas of Wine in Munich’s Literaturhaus, a sort of literary restaurant in one of...

German wine specialist Michael Schmidt very kindly offered to share with us his tasting notes taken at the official launch of the top German wines of the 2007 vintage in Wiesbaden at the end of...

In a nutshell : Fragrant whites and some increasingly concentrated reds from three very different cultures. Main grape varieties : Chasselas, Sylvaner (whites); Gamay, Blauburgunder...

2007 Unusual vintage during which a hot April and record early flowering was followed by a very cool summer but then the grapes were ripened, after a suitably extended growing season, by...

See a lively thread on the members' forum about these awards and how to find the award-winning wines. Monday night’s Decanter World Wine Awards dinner provided many surprises,...

For an introduction to the region and to this series of profiles , see The right road to northern Greece and Greece backs indigenous varieties . Biblia Chora is a striking joint...

Jancis on her life in wine... After a virtually wine-free childhood and teenage years in a village of 46 people in...

In The right road to northern Greece , I wrote a brief introduction to the area known as Macedonia. Towards the west of this extensive region, due west of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second...

Lisa Shara Hall, based in Oregon, is senior editor of Wine Business Monthly , author of Wines of the Pacific Northwest , and a longstanding Riesling lover. I love...